On May 4, 1:32*am, "Paul M. Cook" > wrote:
> > wrote in message
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> ...
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> > How many people here actually celebrate Cinco de Mayo? I personally
> > know of nobody who even knows or cares what it is but with all the
> > hoopla I've been seeing you'd think it was some big holiday like
> > Thanksgiving or Christmas. I had never even heard of it until a couple
> > years ago.
>
> In SoCal it is a big holiday, parades, floats, bands, dancing, parties - it
> is a big thing. *More amazing is how somebody could be so ignorant to have
> never heard of it.

Why? It's apparently an Mexican and/or American holiday. Why should
the rest of the world know about it? I rather doubt that Chatty
Cathy celebrates it and I've never seen anything about it around here.
Toronto maybe?

John Kane Kingston ON Canada.